Alessandro Baricco
Alessandro Baricco ( born January 25, 1958 in Turin ) is an Italian writer and journalist.
Life
Alessandro Baricco studied philosophy and musicology was Gianni Vattimo student and graduated in 1983 with a dissertation on Theodor W. Adorno from. This was followed by publications in various fields, so Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Gioachino Rossini and the New Music. The 1984 features screenplay for a short film Una vita spericolata ( A reckless life ) has been awarded sponsorship awards. Baricco works for a long time as a music critic. He wrote, among other things, for the newspapers La Repubblica and La Stampa. His journalistic articles and essays have been published in several anthologies.
Baricco was popular in his native Italy in particular through his work in television. So he brought the audience from 1993 classic opera L' amore è in the program un dardo ( Love is an arrow) closer. From 1994 he hosted with Il circolo Pickwick ( Pickwick Papers ), a literary program for the " casual reader ." Even more projects Baricco had effective public dissemination of literature on the content. For the first time in 1997, he designed together with the theater director Gabriele Vacis a reading festival called Totem, which was published as a combined book and video production. With the band Air in 2003 he brought out an album that sought a connection between music and reading. Since 1994 Baricco conducted a literature high school called Scuola Holden in Turin, where he mainly lives on today.
Literary work
Already with his first novel Castelli di rabbia ( German Title: Land of Glass ) was Baricco celebrated in Italy in 1991 as a literary discovery and promising young author. Its successor Oceano Mare was taken largely enthusiastic 1993 by the criticism, both novels have won awards. This was followed with the monologue Novecento ( nineteen ) and the novella -like novel Seta ( silk) two shorter pieces by themselves attracted both films ( silk, and The Legend of pianists ). Seta was a worldwide bestseller and made Baricco also known in German-speaking countries. Other hand, received poor reviews City, although the novel became a cult book among young readers, according Gerhild fox. 2002 and 2005 joined with Senza Sangue ( without blood) and Questa Storia ( This story ) two more novels to.
Works
- Castelli di rabbia. . Rizolli, Milan 1991 ( German: Land of Glass Piper, Munich 1998 ISBN 3-492-03876- X. )
- L'anima di Hegel e le mucche del Wisconsin. Garzanti, Milan 1992 ( German: Hegel's soul or the cows of Wisconsin Piper, Munich, 1992, ISBN 3-492-04035-7. . ).
- Oceano Mare. RCS Libri, Milano 1993 ( German: Oceano Mare Piper, Munich, 2000. ). ISBN 3-492-23085-7
- Novecento. . Feltrinelli, Milan 1994 ( German: Novecento Piper, Munich, 1999, ISBN 3-492-23085-7. . )
- Seta. . Rizzoli, Milan, 1996 ( German: silk Piper, Munich, 1997, ISBN 3-492-03944-8. . )
- City. RCS Libri, Milano 1999 ( German: City Carl Hanser, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-446-19904-7. . ).
- Senza Sangue. . Rizzoli, Milan, 2002 ( German: Without Blood Carl Hanser, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-446-20347-8. . )
- Dying with laughter: Essays in Rossini, Mozart, Benjamin and Adorno (2005), ISBN 3-446-20580-2
- . Questa Storia Fandango, Rome 2005 ( German: This story Carl Hanser, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-20918-3. . )
- Emmaus Feltrinelli, Milan 2009 ( German: Emmaus Carl Hanser, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-23824-4. . ).